Saturday, February 21, 2009

A favorite Herzogenaurach location, the Bayerischer Hof provides a fabulously gourmet approach to Bavarian cuisine. They also have great American-sized steaks, and a wonderful atmosphere. Staff is friendly and speaks perfect English.

Ever get frustrated because you realize as soon as you pull into your grocery store parking lot that you don't have the requisite change to get a shopping cart? I searched high and low for plastic chips for sale before I found out that you can get them for free at Obi. Just ask at the service counter for "chips" for your "einkaufswagen!" "Ich habe kein Kleingeld!"

On a whim, we decided to go find the graves of Adi and Rudolf Dassler in the Herzogenaurach cemetery yesterday. For those of you who don't know, Adi and Rudolf were brothers who started a shoe making company together. They focused on sport shoes, and were having great success when the brothers started to quarrel. Rudolf left the company to start his own company and called it Puma. Adi changed the name of his company to adidas. Both companies are still headquartered in little old Herzogenaurach, and the feud between the brothers lasted until their death, and affected the history of Herzogenaurach for years to come. Town citizens were basically forced to pick sides, and the town became known as "``the town of bent necks'' because locals wouldn't talk with anyone until they looked to see what shoes they were wearing.

Both brothers are buried in the Herzo cemetery. You find Rudolf immediately to the right as you walk in using the south-west entrance. He is buried with his wife and parents. To find Adi however, you have to trek all the way to the farthest corner of the cemetery, on the opposite side - near the north-east entrance. He is buried with his wife and son.

You can read more about the brothers, their history and the town HERE.

We have discovered a wonderful mustard (Senf) shop, here in Nürnberg, that will be sorely missed once we leave! It has hundreds of varieties of Senf, in all sorts of flavors. My favorite is tomatoe mustard, and if you watch the recipes on my family blog, you've probably heard me mention it.

anyway - for all of you expat ladies, the shop is just at the top of the hill on the way up to the base of the castle at the Albrecht Dürer platz.

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